The Spiteful Nine

[jonmcity]

American owners want to make lots of cash by not having to invest in the team, but now they have to keep up with City. There fans will call for their heads and revenue will fall otherwise. They want a guaranteed return, they saw the PL as that due to the TV revenue.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

If we believe Arsenal were a driving force behind the letter to CAS, why did we let Arteta go to them with a minimum of fuss?

 

[The perfect fumble]

If we believe Arsenal were a driving force behind the letter to CAS, why did we let Arteta go to them with a minimum of fuss?

Because that's what we do.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

All started when we were overtaking them, and their players started coming to us.

So can see it.

My moneys still on the lot from stretford being the kick starters

 

[Keeper!]

If we believe Arsenal were a driving force behind the letter to CAS, why did we let Arteta go to them with a minimum of fuss?

Because he wanted to go.

 

[bluemc]

If we believe Arsenal were a driving force behind the letter to CAS, why did we let Arteta go to them with a minimum of fuss?

Why punish Arteta, who seems like a decent guy and is clearly very close to Pep, because we have an issue with Arsenal? We should also be seen to be a club with a human side who always tries to do right by people. Arteta wanted to take the chance and step up to be a manager, we supported that. That can only help our chances of recruiting promising coaches in the future.

Any revenge on Arsenal should be on the pitch. We should turn the screw and make them suffer when we have the chance. Overtaking them competitively is what has got to them in the first place, and we should carry on squeezing them in this regard at every given opportunity. Someone should have told the players this on Saturday, unfortunately.

 

[Citizen Green]

Spitty in the Telegraph....

Yes, Man City have a persecution complex but Jurgen Klopp was wrong to call FFP verdict 'not good for football'

"But disagreeing with the rules is no justification for obstructing investigators examining if a club has broken them.

City’s gleeful response to a reduced punishment of £9 million based on technical deficiencies in the disciplinary process exposed the depth of their persecution complex.

Upon hearing the verdict, they reacted with the joy you expect when a club wins a trophy, Pep Guardiola posting a selfie before setting his sights on Uefa for trying to implement rules and the clubs pressuring the governing body to do so.

The most laughable image is of City being a lilywhite organisation subject to attack from a hostile cabal of eight elite clubs. For the record, one of the eight clubs is Burnley. I am not sure how City, or those pleading on City’s behalf, can make the argument they are revolutionaries fighting the system and keep a straight face. Oil-rich sovereign nations are not and never will be ‘plucky underdogs’.

Add to that the content of an email from a City lawyer joking about the death of one of Uefa’s overseers and, whatever the rights and wrongs of how those documents were obtained and leaked, you find yourself in danger of losing balance on that moral high ground.

In summary, the outrage towards City and City’s outrage is pure tribalism. It demeans everyone when the juvenile spats of social or even mainstream media are encouraged and fed by the clubs."

City were fined £9m for refusing to provide sensitive documents to a body that continually leaked to the press.

Not sure what the '£9 million based on technical deficiencies' he refers to are, the £9m was for what I just stated above. The ruling clearly states we did not disguise equity funding and that we couldn't be prosecuted based upon UEFA's own fucking rules, there are no technicalities involved.

As for tribalism, he has some nerve.

 

[LongsightM13]

Wasn’t the letter on an Arsenal letterhead? Not sure we needed to engage the services of Sherlock Holmes to work this one out

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Spitty in the Telegraph....

Yes, Man City have a persecution complex but Jurgen Klopp was wrong to call FFP verdict 'not good for football'

"But disagreeing with the rules is no justification for obstructing investigators examining if a club has broken them.

City’s gleeful response to a reduced punishment of £9 million based on technical deficiencies in the disciplinary process exposed the depth of their persecution complex.

Upon hearing the verdict, they reacted with the joy you expect when a club wins a trophy, Pep Guardiola posting a selfie before setting his sights on Uefa for trying to implement rules and the clubs pressuring the governing body to do so.

The most laughable image is of City being a lilywhite organisation subject to attack from a hostile cabal of eight elite clubs. For the record, one of the eight clubs is Burnley. I am not sure how City, or those pleading on City’s behalf, can make the argument they are revolutionaries fighting the system and keep a straight face. Oil-rich sovereign nations are not and never will be ‘plucky underdogs’.

Add to that the content of an email from a City lawyer joking about the death of one of Uefa’s overseers and, whatever the rights and wrongs of how those documents were obtained and leaked, you find yourself in danger of losing balance on that moral high ground.

In summary, the outrage towards City and City’s outrage is pure tribalism. It demeans everyone when the juvenile spats of social or even mainstream media are encouraged and fed by the clubs."

This is the power of having club reps in the pundits box. It's a massive imbalance when we're talking about billion pound industries where one side gets to promote their business (Through their ex staff) but also spread fake news and lies about the opposition.

I've always said it needs to be more impartial, it's actually getting poisonous now and Sky (And the other publications) need to stop this total attack on City. And it is total.

 

[Dirty Harry]

If we believe Arsenal were a driving force behind the letter to CAS, why did we let Arteta go to them with a minimum of fuss?

Maybe he's a double agent, what was it Karl Doon said ? "We hear the whispers" or something like that ;-)

 

[Dirty Harry]

City were fined £9m for refusing to provide sensitive documents to a body that continually leaked to the press.

Not sure what the '£9 million based on technical deficiencies' he refers to are, the £9m was for what I just stated above. The ruling clearly states we did not disguise equity funding and that we couldn't be prosecuted based upon UEFA's own fucking rules, there are no technicalities involved.

As for tribalism, he has some nerve.

This actually surprised me far more than being exonerated, CAS themselves described the leaks etc as 'Worrisome", so I was expecting it to go along the lines of " yeah, ok, according to this bunch of bellends rules, you were uncooperative, but we can absolutely understand why, so the bent bastards can swivel", or words to that effect.

 

[Woody135]

Maybe he's a double agent, what was it Karl Doon said ? "We hear the whispers" or something like that ;-)

He obviously forgot on Saturday then

 

[give it to gordon]

This actually surprised me far more than being exonerated, CAS themselves described the leaks etc as 'Worrisome", so I was expecting it to go along the lines of " yeah, ok, according to this bunch of bellends rules, you were uncooperative, but we can absolutely understand why, so the bent bastards can swivel", or words to that effect.

Agree why weren't UEFA fined for all the leaks ?

 

[Dirty Harry]

He obviously forgot on Saturday then

What better way to go under the radar, the long game my friend, the looooong game ;-)

Agree why weren't UEFA fined for all the leaks ?

I was convinced that whilst we probably did, CAS would consider the mitigating circumstances, be interesting to see what the full report actually says about it.

 

[Blueprint Blue]

Maybe he's a double agent, what was it Karl Doon said ? "We hear the whispers" or something like that ;-)

Ha ha, I like what your autocorrect did there.

 

[M18CTID]

Wasn’t the letter on an Arsenal letterhead? Not sure we needed to engage the services of Sherlock Holmes to work this one out

I’m not sure. There was a letter on Arsenal headed paper sent to the Premier League about 7 or 8 years ago asking them to tighten up proposed FFP regs in the PL regarding allowable losses and asking for them to mirror those in UEFA’s FFP regs. That was signed by Arsenal, Spurs, United, and Liverpool. It could be that this time Sheffield United have tipped us off as to who the ringleader is.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Ha ha, I like what your autocorrect did there.

The Karl Doon ? That was intentional bud lol .

 

[Centurions]

City were fined £9m for refusing to provide sensitive documents to a body that continually leaked to the press.

Not sure what the '£9 million based on technical deficiencies' he refers to are, the £9m was for what I just stated above. The ruling clearly states we did not disguise equity funding and that we couldn't be prosecuted based upon UEFA's own fucking rules, there are no technicalities involved.

As for tribalism, he has some nerve.

and that we couldn't be prosecuted based upon UEFA's own fucking rules

Even worse (or better depending on viewpoint), CAS have said that the time-barred stuff shouldn't even have been considered and CAS themselves wouldn't have bothered looking. Of course the non time-barred stuff would have been looked at and dismissed as pure speculation from UEFA based on 2 or 3 single emails, so I think even the time-barred stuff would have passed muster.

 

[LongsightM13]

I’m not sure. There was a letter on Arsenal headed paper sent to the Premier League about 7 or 8 years ago asking them to tighten up proposed FFP regs in the PL regarding allowable losses and asking for them to mirror those in UEFA’s FFP regs. That was signed by Arsenal, Spurs, United, and Liverpool. It could be that this time Sheffield United have tipped us off as to who the ringleader is.

Ah that might be where I’m getting confused. Hard to keep up with these reptiles. I think Martin Samuel made reference to a London law firm, Russell’s, being engaged by the eight so they probably sent it

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

They're a right bitter bunch those Arsenal fans, you only have to spend 5 minutes laughing at Arsenal Fan TV to see that. The only sensible and fair one is Robbie. I remember last season seeing a video where that fat arsewipe Claude said he wanted Liverpool to win the league over us. There was some shouty "OMG..I was like...." female Gooner on the 93.20 semi-final preview last week and she couldn't bring herself to say anything nice about us, even when teed up by the host. They dislike us intensely because basically, we have usurped them in the top 4 and taken their CL slot, which for many years they had contrived to carve up with the other 3/4 English clubs and UEFA. One of the worst clubs for thinking they have some god-given divine right to be at the top table every season.
I don't understand all this 'good luck in the final" crap. I'd like to see them getting horsed 6-0. I don't give two hoots that Arteta is there.